Good morning from Singapore,

CentOS 8 will be released on 24 Sep 2019, that is, in 4 days' time.

Read link below:

<a href="https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8" title="https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8">https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8</a>

It says Final release slated for 24 Sep 2019.

Thank you.

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Hi all!

I keep getting reports from selinux, like below, and I have no clue
what the app is it's talking about, nor how do figure out if it should
be allowed access or not.

Anyone got any advice to offer?

It says:

The source process: /usr/sbin/xtables-multi
attempted this access: open
on this file: /run/xtables.lock

Having no clue what xtables-multi is, or why or even if it should be
able to open that file, I am at a loss:

should I take action to enable it, or not?

Thanks in advance!

Fred

Was reading the long list of things being deprecated in the RHEL 8
release notes t'other day, and saw my old friend sendmail on the list.

I've stuck by her because I've learned how she likes to be stroked to
get the best out of her, and quail at the thought of taking on a new
MTA and having to learn it all all over again.

But I guess I'm going to have to, soon or late, probably sooner than
later. :(

Can anyone point me to resources specifically for helping us ignorant
folk in converting all the arcan-ity in sendmail.mc into something
equivalent for Postfix?

Thanks in advancce!

Fred

I installed my first UEFI disk yesterday. Seemed to go fine. CentOS 7.6
x86_64
I then took that disk "out" of that machine and put it another machine - it
seems to not even boot.
I put the original disk back in that machine and it boots fine.

I put the UEFI disk back in the machine I built it on and it works fine.
They are similar machines either and i3 and i7.

Shouldn't that work? Build a UEFI disk on machine A - move it to machine B?

Thanks

Jerry

I did yum -y update --exclude=vulkan*; then rebooted

When I do yum check-updates I get this: (which I expect)

vulkan.x86_64
1.1.97.0-1.el7 base
vulkan-filesystem.noarch
1.1.97.0-1.el7 base

When I do the yum -y update I get this:

Transaction check error:
file /usr/lib64/libSPIRV-Tools-opt.so from install of
vulkan-1.1.97.0-1.el7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
spirv-tools-libs-2019.1-1.el7.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/libSPIRV-Tools.so from install of
vulkan-1.1.97.0-1.el7.x86_64 conflicts with file f

I was working on upgrading some of our POWER8 ppc64le nodes and ran into
the following issue with the libguestfs package that's currently in updates:

$ yum upgrade libguestfs
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package libguestfs.ppc64le 1:1.38.2-12.el7_6.2 will be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libguestfs = 1:1.38.2-12.el7_6.2 for package:
1:libguestfs-tools-c-1.38.2-12.el7_6.2.ppc64le
--> Processing Dependency: libguestfs = 1:1.38.2-12.el7_6.2 for package:
1:perl-Sys-Guestfs-1.38.2

This is every day this has gone way overbord with email i have a business to run this is spaming when it is emailing daily remove us from the list now.

Apologies if it's considered off-topic, but I'm not sure in what part
of the system the issue lies.

I need to work on a host which has been offline and powered down for
some time. I has CentOS-6.9 installed. At some point it had two
nics, one on the motherboard (still present and working) and one as an
expansion card.

When booted the console displays:

pciehp 0000:00:1c:0:pcie04: Failed to check link status

repeatedly.

How do I tell the host to ignore the missing nic or remove it from the
system configuration so that the error is removed.

I've started testing with the "cr" repositorory enabled, and we are
going to have a *lot* of problems building EPEL packages unless we get
well ahead of the game.

RHEl has elected to publish their python3 modules as "python3-module",
and to obsolete "python36-module" names. All well and good, this will
help provide upgrade paths from EPEL. The problem is that they've also
updated "pythone_pkgversion" to be "3", instead of "36".

When doing yum operations I get this message at the end of whatever
yum was doing:

** Found 1 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
brscan4-0.4.8-1.x86_64 is a duplicate with brscan4-0.4.3-1.x86_64

It is true, if I do "rpm -qa | grep brscan" it shows two of them.

what's the best/proper way to deal with this?
-remove both, reinstall one?
-remove one? which one? I don't see a feature in rpm (or yum) for
removing a single one of duplicate packages. How?

Thanks in advance!

Fred

I hope that someone here can give some advice on the following:

I have a Samba based Active Directory. A CentOS 7.6 machine runs as a
file server and hosts the Windows user profiles for all the Windows
workstations.

Now management has decided that they need a Windows server for a couple
of administrative applications, which need MS SQL Server. That would be
the only role of this Windows.

I was wondering what people's opinions are on running the CR repository on
production systems? I'm currently predisposed to not do it since it
indicates it hasn't fully gone through QA yet. But from my understanding
except for the alt-arch systems these are just recompiles of the redhat
RPMs after debranding right?

I'm Curious how other people are treating this repository since, from the
sounds of it, rpms are going to be in holding here between releases.

So would you treat it as a production repository or for testing only?

I need to build u-boot on my CentOS 7 machine but encounter this:

I've updated the installation on my machine but the current version is:
How do I go about updating gcc to version 6 or greater on my CentOS 7
machine? And do so safely?

Hi

CentOS 7.X, sendmail.x86_64 8.14.7-5.el7, cyrus-sasl.x86_64 2.1.26-23.el7

There are conflicting message on how to increase the logging of saslauthd.

I know I can do this:
/usr/sbin/saslauthd -d -n0 -m /var/run/saslauthd -a pam

but that requires a terminal as saslauthd logs the output to STDOUT, this is not what I want.

I would like to have it started as a daemon and verbosity of logging increased into a log file.

How can I increase the verbosity of logging for saslauthd?

thanks

Redhat has had llvm-toolset-7.0 available since March 2019. It adds
support for clang and llvm version 7. See
<a href="https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019" title="https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019">https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019</a> ... rust-1-31/
<https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/03/29/red-hat-enterprise-linux-compiler-toolset-updates-clang-llvm-7-0-go-1-11-rust-1-31/>

Is this going to be available on Centos 7 and if so, when?

Don't confuse this with llvm-toolset-7 which supports the older clang
version 5 which is already available with Centos 7.

Dear all,

after enabling the EPEL repository,

[root@localhost ~]# yum install nextcloud-client

in a freshly installed and updated CentOS 7.6 machine gives

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: centos.bio.lmu.de
* epel: ftp.uni-stuttgart.de
* extras: centos.schlundtech.de
* updates: mirror1.hs-esslingen.de
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package nextcloud-client.x86_64 0:2.3.3-1.el7 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: nextcloud-client-libs(x86-64) = 2.3.3-1.el7
for package: nextcloud-client-2.3.3-1.

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Good morning,
in order to post proper documentation, what logs (or log level) do I
need to troubleshoot a Centos 7.6.1810 3.10.0-957.27.2.el7.x86_64 tha
tis running a NFS server on top LVM on top of XFS on top of VDO on top
of MDAM on a 6 SSD disk RAID6 ?

This physical NFS server is servign 2 NFS v4.2 shares to 2 physical
KVM virtualization hosts.

When remote NFS clients start doing intensive stuff (massive writes) ,
the NFS server crashes and sometimes make the Linux server reboot.

form KVM side this is all I get: hvm002 kernel: nfs: server 10.10.10.2
not responding, timed out

thanks

I figure it won't. Hope the experts can clarify.

I'm still using C6 and want to C7 and really to C8.

<a href="https://www.psychz.net/client/kb/en/upgrade-centos-6-to-centos-7.html" title="https://www.psychz.net/client/kb/en/upgrade-centos-6-to-centos-7.html">https://www.psychz.net/client/kb/en/upgrade-centos-6-to-centos-7.html</a>

I used to be able to 'repair' ext4 fs issue (when the boot process drops
you into emergency mode)...

but now with xfs - it does not seem to let me do that.

xfs_repair /dev/sda3
or
xfs_repair -L /dev/sda3
both say fatal error
fatal error -- couldn’t initialize XFS library

How can I repair XFS with burning a DVD and finding an external USB reader
etc...

Thanks,

Jerry

Hi,

I wan't to find the sqlite & python rpm packaging files in git.centos.org,
but I found that the branch c6 for centos 6 are all empty.

Is that because centos 6 reached its end? Or where can I find the packaging
files?

Best regards,

WqyJh

I am looking for software to make slideshows/presentations on CentOS, incorporating photos, videos and text (possibly also music) allowing for transition effects etc. I'd like to be able to drag and drop/rearrange photos etc. from different folders into a timeline and eventually end up with something I can show. Ideally without having to make copies of photos and store them in a folder specific for this but drag and drop from whatever folder the photo etc.

Everyone,

On August 2, my desktop unit updated with kmod-nvidia-430.40-1.el7_6.elrepo.x86_64nnn
which broke yum having a multiple of dependencies not being present. I uninstall kmod-
dvidia with the hopes that a fresh install would fix the provlem, but it did not.

nvidia-detect returns :

kmod-nvidia
An Intel display controller was also detected

I was hoping that this was a repository problem that would become fixed, but I am still now
unable to reinstall kmod-nvidia.

Has anyone else had this problem, and does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might
begin a fix.

Hi,
tested
<a href="https://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/images/ovirt/CentOS-7-x86_64-oVirt-20190822_01.qcow2c" title="https://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/images/ovirt/CentOS-7-x86_64-oVirt-20190822_01.qcow2c">https://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/images/ovirt/CentOS-7-x86_64-oVirt-2...</a>
and seems overall functional.
The ovirt-guest-agent service is disabled. Pushed
<a href="https://github.com/CentOS/sig-cloud-instance-build/pull/157" title="https://github.com/CentOS/sig-cloud-instance-build/pull/157">https://github.com/CentOS/sig-cloud-instance-build/pull/157</a> for fixing it,
please review / merge.
I think we can limit the release to the qcow2c image only.
Thanks,

Hi,

I've posted this on cups forum several days ago but did not receive any suggestion. May be Centos Users/admins could give me some advices.

I've setup my first cups server to provide printing services to several clients (instead of each CentOS client reaching the printer).

It is a dedicated VM running CentOS7.

On the web interface all requests belong to Withheld user and it is difficult to know who is printing and who can cancel his request.

Is there some documentation/tutorial to instruct cups to use a remote ldap server to identify users?

I am totally new to AWS.  There was a posting here ~ a year ago making
claims about setting up a CentOS image on AWS.

I have created a free AWS account and am looking at the available images.

None are named CentOS.  There is a Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 and
Amazon's own Linux and SUSE, Ubuntu, but I don't find CentOS.

This is a learning endeavor.  I was thinking to first set up a BIND
slave for my domain.  Then move on to a http image, then work with
MariaDB.  All to see what I can do with AWS that is familiar to what I
do on my own servers.

Any pointers greatly appreciated.

Hi,

is it somehow possible to make CUPS automatically redirect jobs, and
following jobs, away from printers which can not print them to other
printers that can print them until the printers that couldn't print
them are again able to print them?

Like I have a bunch of label printers which are all the same, and all
of which are prone to run out of labels or out of ribbon every now and
then. It can take hours or even days before someone can refill a
printer.